Lesson learned as a once upon a time walking/biking adolescent near a public library in a land-grant university town in the Midwest who moved to a Montgomery County setting planned by a developer, miles away from a library, miles from a high school, miles from the train station, miles from the last stop of the Red Line, but less than a mile from a first priority infrastructure large shopping mall: an unintended consequence of being “latchkey” was learning important things in life happen elsewhere, not at home.
Applauding Perdue (re: “Many USDA workers to quit as research agencies move to Kansas City: ‘The brain drain we all feared,’” The Washington Post, July 18 at 10:57 AM, Ben Guarino). To quote a former coworker and Bethesda native who as a new MFA Writers’ Workshop grad replied in the Midwest’s defense: “It’s not that bad.”
Wednesday, July 17, 2019, Kansas City, 14:08 CDT:
Asteroid 25890 Louisburg 6° 01′ Gemini biquintile Scorpio 0° 16′ rising
Venus 17° 22′ conjunct North Node 17° 39′ Cancer
Ceres station direct 0° 31′ Sagittarius
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